Emma and Terry had consensual sex on Love Island, so why is Emma the only one being condemned for it?

If you're an avid (and by 'avid', I mean addicted) viewer of Love Island, you most likely saw new couple Emma and Terry have sex on last night's show.

And considering this season has been saucier than your average spag bol, I didn't think it was too much of a shock. To be honest, I feel like I've heard more of Nathan's orgasms in that villa than I have from any human boy.

But this latest hook up didn't incite the usual laughter or applause from this very close gang of Islanders (who at this point will never be able to have sex without an audience again, I don't think).

Instead, it caused some seriously nasty slut-shaming aimed at Emma both inside and outside the villa, which made me wonder - where the hell is Terry in all of this? And why are we giving these women a hard time for acting exactly the same as their male counterparts?

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First thing's first, I totally understand that seeing individuals having sex on TV isn't quite up to some people's moral standards, and that's fine. That's why shows like Grand Designs exist. But you only have to tune in to programmes like Big Brother and Geordie Shore to see that, clearly, we are a nation who do quite like having a little peek into the love lives of strangers.

It's when the viewers and actual participants of these shows start getting on their high horses that it aggravates and confuses me - because, most of the time, it's the women who are being judged for their behaviour, and it's time to call BS on the Love Island double standard.

Sure, Terry and Emma are slightly different to other couples in the sense that they did the deed on top of the covers. But Emma very clearly says that it's in order to stop their antics being shown on TV, which, no, isn't the best idea in a room full of people, but she wasn't wrong - we saw way less of them than typically we do of everyone else.

And let's be real, is there really any mystery when anyone DOES get under the duvet? It's hardly an invisibility cloak (and it sure as hell isn't soundproof), so either way, the damage is done.

The morning after Emma and Terry have sex, they're the hot topic of conversation between the Islanders, with some wondering 'if Emma has said if she regrets it' (Cady) and others saying 'their man would never let them do something like that' (Cara).

The whole thing even manages to bring Sophie and Tom closer together, as they label Tom's ex-girlfriend as 'slaggy' and 'disgusting'. Pretty strong words. And what do they have to say about Terry's part in the whole thing?

"He was just trying to get his leg over," Sophie declares when someone brings up Terry's girlfriend-from-less-than-a-week-ago, Malin.

So, what? Was Emma being a 'slag' by seducing Terry into her evil, cover-free clutches? Or was Terry actually taking advantage of Emma, which was clearly very easy, because of her said 'slaginess'?

OH WAIT, it's neither - because Emma and Terry were just consenting adults choosing to do what they wanted in the heat of the moment, but while the girl in the equation is being labelled, the boy isn't facing the same disapproval. You know, because he's a man. And he has urges.

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To this villa (and a particularly nasty section of Twitter), the female libido clearly doesn't exist. The boys are the only ones allowed to express their 'needs', while the girls are just there to accommodate them. Remember when Nathan and Cara weren't the power couple they are now and he called her 'the most frigid person he's ever met' after two days of knowing her? That was cute.

When the original boys first entered the villa, I'm pretty sure none of them declared that they wouldn't be having sex on TV, which is fine, obviously. And then, when they did proceed to have sex on TV, nobody thought anything of it.

But when a few of the girls DID say they wouldn't and then decided to change their minds as time went on, they were treated like hypocrites and accused of 'playing a game'.

Well, you know us women, we really do like tricking men when it comes to sex. Honestly, you've got us, the whole thing was just a big test. A*'s all round.

It's safe to say that nobody in that villa is shy about their sexuality, and rightly so. But it's wrong of them to pick and choose who to be supportive of, especially when you're doing so in order to match public opinion.

When Zara slept with Alex on their first date (and on Alex's first day in the house, but nobody cared about that), the group were keen to call her 'desperate'… up until she was stripped of her Miss GB title, and suddenly everybody was on her side. Sophie even went as far as to make an impassioned speech about how sex is normal and that Zara is still a role model.

I don't reckon Sophie's going to be doing the same for Emma. At least not until she gets some sort of indication that the general public feel a bit bad about her being treated like a bottle of factor 50 suncream by her fellow Islanders.

And judging by Twitter, Emma has officially won the title of Worst Person Who's Ever Lived, so let's not hold our breath. Sexual equality, eh? Probably overrated anyway.

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